Today Caitlyn Ritter successfully defensed her Clinical Research Project entitled, “Exploring the Identities of Adults Who Choose Not to Use Their Hearing Aids”. Caitlyn has worked long and hard on this project. We are very proud of her latest achievement and look forward to even bigger ones around the corner!

Last year we began a collaboration with the Family Communication and Relationships lab and began gathering stories from people affected by hearing loss to explore how hearing loss influences family members’ wellbeing, self-esteem, and overall self-concept. Today we found out that our qualitative study using interpretive narrative was accepted for publication with the Journal of Deaf Studies...

The Spoken Language Processing lab is incredibly proud of Taylor Chafin. Today she successfully defended her clinical research project, “The effects of talker variability on sentence recognition in noise by listeners with hearing loss”. This means that Taylor is one, huge step closer to her doctorate of audiology degree!

We are so excited to announce that our collaboration with Dr. Kristina Scharp from the Family Communication Lab was funded! For this project, we will gather stories from hearing parents of deaf children who chose to implant their children during infancy. We will use this information help us understand how the stories parents tell about their...

It’s that time of year again…today Maren Ulrich graduated with her bachelor’s in Communicative Disorders! We’re so proud of all she’s accomplished this last year. We’ll miss her smiley face in the lab.

First celebration of the day–Hannah Jones was awarded a Rick Q. Lawson Fellowship. This award is college-wide and shows that Hannah is a graduate student who demonstrates strong academic and leadership skills in the field of pediatric audiology. We’re so proud!

After surviving an intense month of data collecting, poster creating, and conferencing, the SLP lab deserved the best…ice cream cake for everyone!

We are so proud of Maddy Buntrock who learned today that she is the recipient of USU’s 2017 Morse Scholarship. We can’t imagine anyone more deserving than this incredible honors student, service learning scholar, and undergraduate research assistant!

Today is an amazing day. Not only is it “Star Wars Day”, it’s time to celebrate the end of the semester and the end of the Spoken Language Processing Lab’s first year in Logan, UT. What an incredible year it’s been! The lab is up and thriving. We’re collecting data from children and adults. We’ve...